Been looking to buy 200-400 polybags. (Nothing rare, just city/creator etc) But they are hard to find at an affordable price. At low quantises they cost less than £1 a bag. But over 200 and the price per bag goes up...
One guy wanted £2 a bag for 500 of the same. (A Disney bag I sell for £4.) He thought it was a good price as I sell them for £4, but I tried to explain if you only have 5 and you can wait a year, you will get 4 each... But 500? I would struggle to shift them at £1 each.
If anybody knows a good place to buy a larger quantity, let me know.
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Aftermarket prices are always a meeting between what the seller wants to charge and what the buyer wants to pay.
I'm always in need for very cheap polys (for a good cause though, not profit) and it takes patience, effort and luck to get them. If people have smaller amounts they probably got then for very cheap (Or free) so people will let them go cheaper. People who have 500 simply won't. 500 @ £2 isn't a bad deal, way too much for me though.
If you want 100s cheap you are going to have to do the hard work and buy piecemeal.
Not complaing at all. If you are a reseller you most likely deal with other resellers. Sometimes I let things go cheap to clear stock. Others do the same. Part of trading.
500 of the same poly is a bad deal if you can only sell 30-40 of them. The guy got them from toysrus and said he paid over a pound per bag. Find that hard to believe, more likely paid a lot less. (It was a closing down sale after all.) But fair play to him if he can sell them for 2.
I only buy stuff in person, as it tends to be cheaper than online.
https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/4115/uk-toys-ya-us-deals/p81
When TRU started clearing stock they were £3, then £2.50, then £2. I believe most stores cleared them out at £2. Some polys were available in the last couple of days at £1.25, but certainly all the stores around me sold out of LEGO looooong before that.
I don't understand your problem at all, you want large quantities at a good price, you've been offered that but you feel the need to complain about it because you can't sell that many...
He was wanting to sell more than 30-40. If you have 500 to sell your are a wholesaler. And the hard work is selling 500 to individuals, than 500 in one go. He was looking to shift all in one go. Doudt he could get 4 a bag at carboots/markets.
But as I said if he can sell all for 2 a bag, then of course fair play to him.
TRU had thousands, and they certainly were not a wholesaler. Nobody has 500 in stock on Bricklink - isn't that where wholesalers go to sell Lego?
Is it somebody who regularly sells LEGO, or a "civilian" that just happened to pick them up looking to flip them? If the former, they already understand being a reseller. If the latter, they may be overly optimistic regarding the effort it takes to sell them one by one. Either way, check back with them in 6 months and see if they still have them. If they do, maybe they'll be ready to sell at your price. If not, they probably got a better offer (or offers).
I assumed bricklink was for resellers. Wholeseler use other channels. Civilians rarely buy off wholesalers.
He was a market trader seller tack. Had a van so not a civilian. As we did not agree on price I did not take his contact details. I buy Lego every week so not desperate...
I didn't ask but got the impression that TRU were not taking offers on heavily discounted stock as it was selling OK at the heavy discounts.
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Too dark?
Are you an angel? I've heard the deep forum dwellers talk about them. They live on the moons of Liego, I think.
I think that would turn me into the Underminer.